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Vandalism 1.1 -  Doing... - November 25 2008
Wikimarkup 1.1 -  Not done
Permissions -  Doing... - October 22 2008
Copyright on a free Wiki -  Not done
Vandalism 1.2 (Optional 1) -  Not done
Deletion Policy (Optional 2) -  Not done

Permissions

• 1. What is a permission?
• 2. What pages are un-registered users able to edit?
• 3. What is an auto confirmed account?
• 4. What permissions do registered accounts have?
• 5. Who can grant rollback?
• 6. What does rollback enable you to do?
• 7. Where can one request the account creator flag?
• 8. What are the dangers of granting a user with the IPblock exemption flag?
• 9. What should you not use rollback for?
• 10. What are administrators able to do?
• 11. How do you request adminship?
• 12. What are bureaucrats main duties?
• 13. What technical abilities do stewards have?
• 14. What does checkuser enable a user to check?
• 15. What is oversight?
• 16. What type of a user must you be to be granted oversight?

• 1. Permissions are the rights and tools granted to the various ranking members of Wikipedia.

- Try again - extra permissions shouldn't be referred to as 'ranks.' For example, an administrator isn't a more privileged user.

• 2. Unregistered users may only edit pages that are not under any form of protection.

Correct

• 3. "Autoconfirmed" accounts are those that are registered, having been in existence for at least four days, and belonging to a user who has made a minimum amount of edits.

Correct - a minimum of 10 edits.

• 4. Registered users can create and move pages, as well as uploading files and editing pages that are not under full protection.

Correct

• 5. Both admins and non-admins can grant rollback rights.

- Try again - Non admins cannot grant rollback

• 6. Rollback rights allow a user to delete multiple edits made by the same user, reverting the page back to the most recent revision by a user other than the one whose edits are being deleted. It is used to fight vandalism and to delete unconstructive edits.

Correct

• 7. Administrators grant rollback rights at WP:PERM.

Correct

• 8. The exemption could be taken advantage of by vandals, enabling them to vandalize from any addresses available to them. The exempted party should be monitored.

Correct

• 9. Rollback rights should not be used to target a user only because of previous offenses, when the edits in question are not necesarrily unconstructive.

- Try again - Hmm I think you have the gist however, there's a more obvious answer. Say I'm editing an article and another user persistently keeps undoing your work. Should rollback be used here.

• 10. Administrators' rights include the ability to edit any protected page, and to alter the Mediawiki interface. They can also protect or un-protect pages themselves, and block users for definite and indefinite amounts of time.

Correct

• 11. Hopefuls must apply in the Requests for adminship process, where admin rights can be granted to them by a consensus methods, generally requring about 75% support in order to have the admin rights granted.

Correct

• 12. Bureaucrats can promote users to admin or bureucrat status, but cannot demote any users. They are chosen by a consensus similar to that of the adminship process, but a higher percentage of support is generally required to be promoted to this level.

Correct

• 13. Stewards have complete, unbridled access to users' permissions, enabling them to promote or demote a user to any rank. They are elected by the Wikipedia Board of Trustees.

Correct - On every language project

• 14. Checkusers trace the I.P. addresses that from which Wikipedia has been accessed, in order to trace vandals using illegitimate sockpuppet accounts. These users must be held legally liable for these delicate operations, and users must present proof of identity to be granted these rights.

Correct

• 15. Oversight allows users to hide particular revisions from a page's history, usually due to a controversial nature of a reverted edit.

Correct

• 16.This tool is only granted to users who are acknowledged as having a special need for them, and the tools are usually only conferred by invitation, generally to current of former members of the Arbitration Commitee

Correct

So far so good, just a few questions to go back and revise. Keep it up.

Vandalism 1.1

Here's my first link to a vandalism edit. Like you said, it was made by an unregistered user. Hope I copy this right...

1

Here's the next one. While this user might have deleted the misplaced(probably purposely) Jackie Chan information, I doubt that there is any way to confirm the statement that Scott Johnson has played more Nintendo DS than anyone else or whatever this person said. 2.

Actually this article received multiple stupid edits. And here's the last link: 3

Ok, the first and third links both point to instances of vandalism however the second isn't. Remember, removal of content doesn't always mean the editor is being unconstructive. Read through this page for more info.